Center for Women’s & Gender Studies

Thursday, 2/18
Coffee with the Texas Roller Derby Lonestar Rollergirls at 9:00 pm at the Tejas House (at 26th and Rio Grande). Founded in 2001 in Austin,Texas by She-EOs Anya Jack, April Herman, Heather Burdick and Nancy Lynn, TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls was started with a vision of outrageous production value and fabulous women on skates. The Lonestar Rollergirls are local favorite daughters as well as a hearty entertainment staple, perfectly blending the “Keep Austin Weird” attitude with a free-wheeling pursuit of fun and competition, with rocking local music thrown in for good measure.

Saturday Feb 20
We are honored to announce that President Powers will be giving the welcome remarks at the second annual Texas Equity Conference this Saturday, February 20. Regardless of whether you plan to attend the whole conference, we would be delighted for you to join us for this historical moment, the first time the President will be making formal remarks on the topic of competitive insurance benefits.

There is no fee to hear the President’s welcome. The event will begin promptly at 9 am in room 203 of the AT&T Conference Center.

Parking is available for a fee in the conference center garage or metered street parking is available on adjacent streets.

Map: http://tinyurl.com/ylllusb

“You’re Beautiful” Silent Auction
Eating Disorder Awareness
Date:Saturday, February 20, 2010
Time:7:00pm – 9:00pm
Location:Space 12
Street:3121 E 12th Ave
City/Town:Austin, TX
“YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL” SILENT AUCTION FUNDRAISER GOALS:

1 – Honor the life of Kelsey Veldman
2 – Get the word out AFED exists and needs community support
3 – Raise funds to support the growth of the AFED organization
4 – Connect resources & meet the community

This event is has FREE ADMISSIONS. There will be beverages and food available. There is a also an area for financial contributions for support if you are not interested in purchasing artwork.

Our website:

http://www.austinfoundationforeatingdisorders.org/

Facebook Event Page:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191581106764&index=1

Facebook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Austin-TX/Austin-Foundation-for-Eating-Disorders/100350259637

Twitter:

http://twitter.com/AustinFED

Call for Papers EXTENSION until March 2nd!

Platform is Royal Holloway’s journal for theatre and the performing arts. Operating out of the department of drama and theatre, Platform is a peer-reviewed
publication dedicated to furthering dialogue in the field of theatre studies. It aims to cover a plurality of international performance practices, such as dance, music, ritual, popular
entertainment, theatre, and performance art.

For the eighth edition of Platform the editors seek to publish
articles that investigate both theoretical and methodological issues
relating to translations and transformations.

We invite submissions of 4,000 words along with a 200 word abstract.

Submissions might engage with, but are by no means limited to:
Translation and Transformation
Disputes about performance between disciplines, identities and nationalities.
Transitional zones: transnational, transgender, transliteration
The ethics of appropriation or eclecticism
The costs and/or effects of labour on artistic practice and research
The negotiation of conflicting methodologies
The construction and reception of performance text

Prior to sending your work, we advise that you consult our submission
guidelines at http://www.rhul.ac.uk/drama/platform/submission_guide.html .

The deadline for submissions is March 2nd, 2010.
E-mail platform-submissions@rhul.ac.uk

(New website coming soon – so check back in March!)

Girls on the Run of Austin is seeking applications for members to join our Board of Directors. Girls on the Run is a nonprofit prevention program serving girls in 3rd – 5th grade. Our mission is to educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of healthy living and self respect.

Girls on the Run is currently seeking applications for new members to join the Board of Directors. Each Board member is responsible for serving on a committee and terms range from 1 – 3 years. Interested candidates should contact KB Schatz at kb@gotraustin.org or 512-788-3202

Help low-income families and students access the money they need for higher education. Foundation Communities Cash for College volunteer programs trains volunteers to work with clients one-on-one to navigate cumbersome financial aid forms and gain information about the costs of higher education. Volunteer locations and scheduling are flexible.

To learn more or to get started please contact Chris Alberts at christopher.alberts@foundcom.org or (512) 610-4008

Multicultural Refugee Coalition works with refugees that settle in the Austin area from places such as Iraq, Bhutan, Cuba, Burma and many countries in Africa. Our mission is to empower refugees towards self-sufficiency through education, community and reconciliation. We are seeking volunteers to help in the following areas:

Job Skills (Thursday 6-9pm and Saturday 1-4pm)

- Help prepare resumes
- Help set-up emails and basic computer skills
- Help apply for on-line job applications
- Conduct mock- interviews
Sewing (Saturday 1-3pm)

- Teach participants the basics of sewing with a machine
- Assist as they make their own clothing and accessories
- Donations of cotton fabric and newer model sewing machines in good working order are much needed as well
Elementary Youth Program (Saturday 12:30-3:30pm)

- Help parents and children sort through weekly homework folders
- Provide tutoring
- Play educational games

If you are interested in finding out more about these opportunities and how you can get involved please contact Meg Goodman at mgoodman@mrcaustin.org or visit our website at www.mrcaustin.org to fill out a volunteer application.

The RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service in the LBJ School of Public Affairs at UT Austin and RISE Austin welcome Blake Mycoskie, founder and Chief Shoe Giver of TOMS Shoes, as part of the RGK Center’s Frances Moody Newman Distinguished Lecture Series and the RISE Austin entrepreneurship conference. The lecture will be on Tuesday, March 2 at 6:30 PM. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be held at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center (1900 University Ave).

Find complete event details and RSVP at http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/rgk/events/tomsshoes.php.

Friday, Feb. 19
WIN. 2.112
2:00-3:30

Dance historian Rebecca Rossen moderates a discussion with the artistic director and dancers in Black Grace, New Zealand’s premiere dance company.

Fusing traditional New Zealand dance with postmodern dance, Black Grace has become the world’s leading exponent of Pacific contemporary dance. Hailing from New Zealand, this all-male group travels from thundering stomps, to breathtaking swaying displays of virtuostity. With an explosive combination of rhythm, energy and passion, Black Grace offers a performance both brave and deeply moving.

This session promises to be interesting to anyone interested in cultural fusion, contemporary dance, gender and nationalism in performance, and the relationship between the “folkloric” and the “contemporary.”

Black Grace will be performing on Feb. 20 (8pm) at Texas Performing Arts Center.

For more information go to:

http://texasperformingarts.org/event/blackgrace

The seventh annual Abriendo Brecha Activist Scholarship Conference will be
held Feb. 18-20 in the Texas Union. This year’s conference will feature
approximately 100 speakers, panelists, and presenters on more than 35
topics.

Abriendo Brecha VII calls for a renewed discussion on the meanings and
practices of activist scholarship, particularly as it relates to the
challenges of the present moment. Some themes for this year’s conference
include: Race and Inequality throughout the Americas; Environmental Justice
Movements; and The Global Economic Crisis. Among the 35+ topics are the
following:
–Interrogating Pedagogy: Issues in Student Research for Social
Justice
–Neoliberalism and Crisis in the University
–Fieldwork and the Contingencies of Political Engagement
–Bridging Community and Academia in the Struggle to End Violence
Against Latinos
–The Methods and Ethics of Activist Research: Working on Racial
Inequality and health in the Americas
–Research is Me-search: Using Critical Race Theory to Prepare
Undergraduate Scholar-Activists in Humanities and Social Sciences
–Clean Water for Texas
–389 Miles Living the Border Documentary: Using Film and
Scholarship to Connect Personal Stories with Activism

For more information and a full conference program, see the conference Web
site: http://www.utexas.edu/diversity/abriendobrecha/index.html. Conference
contact: Eric Tang, erictang@mail.utexas.edu.

The 2010 Lozano Long Conference
Republics of Fear
Understanding Endemic Violence in Latin America Today

Thursday–Friday
March 4–5, 2010
Texas Union, Santa Rita Room 3.502
University of Texas at Austin
See map

The conference will host panels on topics such as gender violence; intimate violence; organized crime, kidnapping and drug traffic; political, state, and para-state violence; structural violence, including poverty, forced migration, racism, and discrimination; and representations of violence in the media, literature, films, and public discourse. The institute hopes in this way to foster and stimulate a new wave of theoretically informed, interdisciplinary, and culturally aware research into this crucial new challenge for Latin America.
Presentations in Spanish and English
See program attached

Sponsored by the
Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, & the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies,
University of Texas at Austin

For more information, visit

http://www.utexas.edu/cola/insts/llilas/conferences/violence.php

If you would like to volunteer to help please contact
Paloma Díaz at 512.232.1415 or p.diaz@austin.utexas.edu.

Greetings from the Bernard and Audre Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice at the University of Texas School of Law.

We are pleased to invite you to register for our sixth annual conference. The conference this year will be held in conjunction with the Texas International Law Journal, and will result in the journal’s annual symposium issue. Entitled “Walls: What They Make and What They Break,” the event will convene an interdisciplinary group of scholars from India, Israel, various parts of Europe and the United States who have researched the recent history of walls – made, unmade, in the making – and their consequences on the geographies of nation states and their neighbors, of communities both domestic and international, virtual and everyday. The conference is designed to build on the work of the Rapoport Center’s Border Wall Working Group and its investigation into the human rights impact of the US-Mexico border wall.

Wendy Brown, professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley, will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, February 25. The conference will continue throughout the day on Friday. All events will be held in the Eidman Courtroom of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law. The schedule is pasted at the bottom of this email.

This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Institute, South Asia Institute, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, and Teresa Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies.

You can learn more about the participants and register by visiting the conference website. This event is free and open to the public. Because space is limited at parts of the conference (especially the Friday lunch), we would appreciate your registration as soon as possible.

http://www.utexas.edu/law/conferences/walls/

Schedule

Thursday, February 25, 2010 — Eidman Courtroom, UT School of Law

6:00 p.m.

Welcoming Remarks: Karen Engle and Barbara Harlow, University of Texas

6:10–7:45 p.m.

Keynote Address

Introductory Remarks: Gretchen Ritter, University of Texas

Keynote address
Wendy Brown, Emanuel Heller Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Discussion moderated by Gretchen Ritter

Friday, February 26, 2010 — Eidman Courtroom, UT School of Law

8:00-8:55 a.m.

Breakfast and Registration

9:00–11:00 a.m.

“Why Walls are Built ”

Panelists:

• Moderator: Willy Forbath, University of Texas
• Andy Clarno, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Philomila Tsoukala, Georgetown University
• Ranabir Samaddar, Calcutta Research Group
11:00–11:10 a.m.

Break

11:15 a.m. –12:45 p.m.

“How Walls Function”

Panelists:

• Moderator: Kamran Ali, University of Texas
• Thomas Hansen, University of Amsterdam and Columbia University
• Hilary Josephs, Syracuse University
• Fernando Lara, University of Texas
12:50–1:50 p.m.

Lunch

2:00–4:00 p.m.

“Who Litigates over Walls ”

Panelists:

• Moderator: Karen Engle, University of Texas
• Denise Gilman, University of Texas
• Margaret Dorsey, Rio Grande Valley Folklore Archive and University of Texas Pan American
• Yishai Blank, Tel-Aviv University
• Nuala Mole, Aire Centre
4:00–4:10 p.m.

Break

4:15–5:45 p.m.

Concluding Reflections: “What Future for Sovereignty and Walls?”

Panelists:

• Moderator: Barbara Harlow, University of Texas
• Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley
• Ranabir Samaddar, Calcutta Research Group
• Thomas Hansen, University of Amsterdam and Columbia University
• Yishai Blank, Tel-Aviv University
• All other panelists participating in the discussion

High schools have to become safer communities for students who identify as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Questioning (LGBQ), but little information is
available to help school personnel identify how to make high schools more
LGBQ affirming. Our team hopes to improve the high school experience for students who identify as LGBQ by helping schools better understand the high school experiences of LGBQ students. We invite you to participate in our interviews (or share our announcement with individuals who identify as LGBQ you believe would be interested in participating) and help us understand and tell the story of LGBQ students’ experiences in high school. We think such information will be important to improving the school climate for all LGBQ students. Let us briefly tell you about the study.

We would like to interview college students between 18 to 22 years of age, who were out to themselves as LGBQ during high school (they may or may not have been out to others). We will look to conduct 2 telephone interviews for each person, cumulatively totaling about one hour. The first interview will take about 45 to 50 minutes to complete. The second interview will be scheduled for approximately 1 week after the first and will take about 10 to 15 minutes.

Alan Burkard, Ph.D. [researcher to contact for participation] Alan.burkard@marquette.edu

In order to participate in the survey, you must be (1) a women enrolled in an institution of higher learning and (2) consent to participate.

My survey will take about 45 minutes to complete, and all data will be collected anonymously with no identifying links to participants. At the end of the survey, participants can elect to enter an e-mail address to be entered into a drawing to win one of two amazon.com gift-cards valued at $50 each. The e-mail addresses will not be connected to survey responses, and no follow-up contact will take place after completion of the survey. This study has been reviewed and approved by The University of Akron’s Institutional Review Board.

I have pasted the link to my online survey below. Additional information will be presented to participants in an Informed Consent page prior to beginning the survey. I thank you in advance for your consideration, and for helping me to ensure that the experiences of lesbian as well as heterosexual women are represented in my study.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/interests

We are students in the Communication Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, and are currently conducting a study that looks into potential challenges of receiving reproductive health care faced by LGBTQ patients.

We are very interested in your perspective and views on this topic. First, may I ask if you are over the age of 18? If so, have you ever received (or attempted to receive) reproductive health care? If so, would you be interested in taking a brief online survey regarding this topic? All of your answers would be anonymous and confidential.

If this sounds like something you would be interested in, please visit: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PZLZH2G to take the survey.

If you have any questions, please contact Elizabeth Goins via email at elizabethsgoins@gmail.com or phone at (571) 276-0853.